Penelope Crumb

7 best books like Penelope Crumb (Shawn K. Stout): Wish, To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Help! I'm Trapped In My Teacher's Body, Gooseberry Park, Sink or Swim, The Tapper Twins Tear Up New York

Wish

Author	Barbara O'Connor
ISBN	0374302731

Listening Length: 4 hours and 41 minutes

Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite....

To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

Author	Siena Cherson Siegel
ISBN	0689867476

The Sibert Honor–winning graphic memoir about the dreams and realities of becoming a ballerina.

Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six—and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico,...

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Author	David Epstein
ISBN	0735214484

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...

Help! I'm Trapped In My Teacher's Body

Author	Todd Strasser
ISBN	0590477374

Jake Sherman is sitting in his sixth grade science class with his friends Josh Hopka and Andy Kent. The class is taught by the boring teacher Mr. Dirksen, who does nothing but lecture the students, and never does anything fun. As he lectures them, Jake and his friends load spitball shooters and shoot them...

Gooseberry Park

Author

Cynthia Rylant

The touching story of an unusual friendship, from one of today's most masterful children's book writers. Now repackaged with an updated look and feel.

You could call it unusual. Strange in fact. Most dogs chase squirrels. But not Kona. He's friends with a squirrel. A squirrel named Stumpy....

Sink or Swim

Author	Sarah Mlynowski
ISBN	0545415691

Once again my brother and I are in hot water...

We weren't planning to mess up the fairy tales. The first two times, we did it by accident.

But when our magic mirror pulls us into the story of the Little Mermaid, we have no choice but to try and rewrite it. Let's just say the original story...

The Tapper Twins Tear Up New York

Author	Geoff Rodkey
ISBN	0316297836

In the follow up to the New York Times bestseller The Tapper Twins Go to War, the twins' school scavenger hunt turns into a "madcap, uproarious romp around the Big Apple" full of "action, hilarity, and mayhem" (School Library Journal).

Geoff Rodkey delivers another pitch-perfect ultra-modern...